Machine for packing dynamites and other high explosives into shells.



H. AUOHU.

MACHINE POE PACKING DYNAMITES AND OTHER HIGH EXPLOSIVES INTO SHELLS.

APPLIQATION FILED JULY 26, 1910.

1,071,683, Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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MACHINE FOR PACKING DYNAMITES AND OTHER HIGH EXPLOSIVES INTO SHELLS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, 1910.

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H. AUCHU.

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MACHINE FOR PACKING DYNAMITES AND OTHER HIGH EXPLOSIVES INTO SHELLS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, 1910.

Wan/moses HENRY AUCHU, OF EMPORIUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR PACKING DYNAMITES AND OTHER HIGILEXPLOSIVES INTO SHELLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed. July 26, 1910. Serial No. 573,993.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY AUGHU, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Emporium, county of Cameron, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMachines for Packing Dynamites and other High Explosives into Shells, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to machines for packing dynamites andother highexplosives into shells which may be conveniently used forblasting and other purposes.

Dynamites and other high explosives are most frequently packed intopaper shells by hand on account of the extreme danger of the operation.

The present invention has for its object the provision of anovelmachine, susceptible of many modifications within the scope of theappended claims, which will be adapted to automatically, rapidly andsafely carry out the operation of packing the shells and whereby anumber of shells may be simultaneously packed, but the packing operationof each will be independent of the others, so that each shell will besatisfactorily packed or filled.

In carrying out the invention, I provide means 'for gently but regularlypacking the shells with the explosive; means for feeding the explosiveto the packing devices; means for regulating the pressure of the packingaction; means whereby the packing operation will cease automaticallywhen a shell is filled and which will permit any of the packing devicesto stop when their shells are filled without interfering with thecontinuation of the packing of the remaining shells which have not beenfilled, together with various other improved and novelinstrumentalities, as will more fully appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly insection, showing one form of the invention with the auger raised; Fig.2, a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a detail plan of one of thepulleys; Fig. 4, a front elevation showing part of a modified machine;Figs. 5, 6 and 7, details of modified screw packers.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 9. and 3, illustrating the first form of theinvention, the framework of the machine is shown at 1, and it carries aninclined hopper 2 having an open front and provided with a front wall 3.

The numeral 4 designates a feeder which has spurs or paddles 5 operatingin the lower front part of the hopper and adapted to gently urge thedynamite or other high explosive toward the feeding devices and into theshells. The inclination of the hopper bottom may be changed as desired,according to the consistency or nature of the explosive to be operatedupon, so that the gravital action thereof will carry such explosivedownwardly and forwardly to the feeder. The front part of the hopperbottom adjacent to the wall 3 is provided with any desired number offunnel shaped openings in which the removable funnels 6 are placed, thepaper shells to receive the dynamite or explosive being shown at 7andheld in a split or divided holder 8, which is suitably supported bythe frame 1. A number of these holders 8 may be employed in which theoperator will place the shells 7 so that as soon as one set is filled,the holder and the filled shells may be quickly removed and anotherholder with empty shells inserted in place thereof, thus insuring greatrapidity of operation without any loss of the explosive. the holder, theshells may be removed.

Journaled in suitable bearings 9 are the shafts 10 of the packing angers11, which are detachably connected by couplings 12 to said shafts, thuspermitting the angers 11 to be made of bronze, aluminum or othersuit-able material and the shafts 10 of brass, cheapening theconstruction. The packing augers 11 are of suitable length and size topass through the funnels 6 and into the shells 7, and in order that thelower ends of the augers may not quite reach to the bottoms of theshells, adjustable collars 18 are provided on the respective shafts 10which, by their abutment with the upper bearings 9, limit the extremedownward play of the angers. The shafts 10 each carry a key 14.Supported in bracket bearings 15 secured to On separating the halves ofI frame 1, are wheels or pulleys 16, through wheels on a suitablecountershaft' 21.

exerted by the packing angers 11 on the dynamite or explosive will .bevaried, and

means are thus provided to accommodate the machine to any particularexplosive which is being packed. All of the wheelsv of pulleys 16 areconnected by vbelts 2O toand 6 and '7 show other ierms of the screwpackers which may be used. r v

The dynamite or other explosive having been placed in the'hoppe-r andthe machine started, the explosive will gravitate toward the tunnels 6and will be gently urged against the angers 11 by the paddles of thefeeder, and because the augers are within the shells, the keys 14 willbe received the seats 1''? and the angers will be in rotat'ion in adirection w h'ichw'iill be the opposite of boring, and hence theexplosive will be fed or packed into the shells. As the packingcontinues, the angers automatically rise a on account of the filling ofthe shells until,

when the shells are finally packed or coinpletely filled, the angerswill be in such position that the keys 14 will have passed ont of theseats 17 (Fig. and hence the notation of the pulleys 16 will not 'canserotation of the shat-ts 1(9, and the angers will remain at rest. Eachpacking device being independent of all others, certain ot the shellsmay be packed before the packing of others is completed, but thene is nointerference of operations and when all of the shells are packed, theholder 8 is removed with the filled shells and another holder carryingempty shells is substituted therefor,

Refierr'ing to Fig. 4:, the construction is identical with thatheretofore described with the exception that the driving means consistsof a shatt having a worm 5Z3 meshing with worm wheels 24 loosely car-Figs.

ried .by therespective shafts 1 0, worm wheels 24: having key-seats likethe key- ;sea-ts 17.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

l. Ina shell packing machine, the combination With a shell holder, of arotatable and slidable shell packer having an inclined nation with ashell holder, of .a rotatable and slidab'le shell paclker having aninclined packing flange or surface and a stem adapted to fill a shellheld by :said holder and to retreat as the shell is filled, throughwhich shell packer slides and by which it is rotated, a loose splineconnection between said wheel and packer, "the parts of which areengaged while the :shell is being packed and which is adapted entirelydisengage when the shell has been packed, and .a plurality of separatelyremovable weiglhts carried by and movable with said steam for applyingany desired pressure to the shell packer to thereby regulate the densityof the material loaded into the shell.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto .al'TiK my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY AUCIIU. Witnesses L. Nnwoomz, WM. 0. .Mrrcnniai.

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